• Make Social Security solvent forever

  • Tax people on all their income, not just income below $176,100

  • Pay Social Security tax on Capital Gains over $100,000

• Free College Education from trade schools to doctorates at public institutions.

  • Cancel all student debt

• Education

  • Stop ‘Teaching to the Test’

  • Reduce classroom size to below 20 students per teacher

• Cap credit card interest rates at 15%

• Hire tens of thousands of IRS agents to audit the rich and corporations

• No Bailing out Wall Street in the next Crash

• After the next Crash:

  • Allow all economically viable companies that go bankrupt to be purchased by their employees with government backed loans (General Motors would be employee owned if this law was in place during the last crash)

  • All failed Banks get taken over by the government to form a Federal Bank or sold to employees

• Push for Employee Owned Businesses

  • When a company goes bankrupt, provide government loans for employees to buy economically viable businesses at a discounted rate and/or Right of First Refusal

• Tax the Rich

  • Inheritance Tax of 100% over a certain amount, say $15,000,000. No loopholes.

  • Wealth Tax

  • Raise high value Capital Gains Tax

• Jobs

  • Full employment with a livable wage

  • $22 hour minimum wage increases with inflation

  • All robots pay employment taxes equal to jobs lost

  • Jobs lost to AI pay 3X full employment taxes equal to jobs lost

• Cap CEO pay to no more than 10X more than the lowest paid worker including bonuses

• Reverse Reagan’s “Project 2025”

  • No more Stock Buy Backs

  • No more paying CEOs with stock

  • Nor more mergers and acquisitions

  • Eliminate all tax breaks on the rich since Reagan

• Paid Family Leave

• Free Childcare

Economic Justice & Workers’ Rights

• Money out of Politics

  • Publicly funded elections

  • All donations must be public, no dark money

• Reinstate Net Neutrality

• Make large internet companies utilities

• Regulate large social media companies like utilities

• Voting

  • Right To Vote Law

  • All states must have independent redistricting committees

  • Ranked Choice Voting with equal access to the ballot for all parties

  • All felons can vote, or at least all felons not having a first degree felony

  • Illegal to remove legal voters from voting rolls with 5 year mandatory imprisonment for doing so

  • Anyone who votes in more than one state, mandatory 5 year imprisonment

• Eliminate the filibuster and pass 51/51 (Popular Majoritarian Cloture Rule)

  • Motion to end debate and pass bills based on: 51 Senators representing 51% of the population

• Supreme Court

  • The Ethics Rules that apply to all other judges must apply to the Supreme Court Justices

  • All decisions must be by Super Majority, at least 7 out of 9

  • 18 year terms

  • Expand Court

Democracy, Justice & Political Reform

• Government and Democracy Reform

  • Bring Back Glass/Steagall

    • Again separate Commercial and Investment Banking and only insure Commercial Banks

  • Regulate “News” organizations

    • Separation of news from entertainment divisions

    • Any news organization intentionally lying, elimination of corporate charter

• Make Washington D.C. a State

• Let all of our Territories vote to become states

• Bring Back Tillman Act

  • Any corporation that gives money to a political candidate:

    • Their CEOs and Board of Directors go straight to prison, mandatory minimum 20 years imprisonment

    • The corporation loses its right to exist

• Privacy Laws

  • No computer programs or apps may sell your info of any kind

• Renew Equal Rights Amendment (or get the one that just passed enacted)

• Release all of the Epstein files

  • Prosecute anyone on the list that had sex with minors

• No statute of limitations for underage rape by adults over 21 (Romeo/Juliette exemptions as not statutory rape)
  
  
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• Universal Healthcare, now (not incrementally) and to include eye, dental, and hearing.

• Paid Family Leave

• Free Childcare

• Until we get Universal Healthcare, put all veterans into the Veterans Administration’s Healthcare system, fully fund the VA, and build hospitals and clinics (Jobs)

• Fully fund Mental Health (VA calls this Behavioral Health) services

• Service dogs (or other animals) for anyone with PTSD

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Healthcare & Social Programs

• Aggressively work to slow down Climate Change/Climate Destruction (This issue should be number 3 but too many older people do not take it seriously)

  • Make the United States a leader in Grean Energy (Jobs)

  • End Fossil Fuel Subsidies

  • Green Energy: build Solar, Wind, Geothermal, and Tidal Energy systems (Jobs)

  • Develop and build energy storage (Jobs)

  • Build High Speed Rail all across the US (Jobs)

  • Build Public Transportation (Jobs)

  • Make all homes and businesses energy efficient (Jobs)

  • Eliminate single family residential zoning

• Recycle Nuclear Waste

  • Long Term Nuclear Waste Disposal via tax on nuclear energy

Climate, Environment & Energy

• Curb use of Plastics

  • Push for and join International Treaty to Curb Plastic Pollution

  • Put deposits on all plastic bottles

  • Eliminate hard to recycle plastics

  • Use alternatives to plastics that naturally break down

• Recycling

  • Everything must be recycled

• Ban PVAS (Forever Chemicals)

  • Regulate, Tax, and Clean up PVAs

• Superfund Tax

  • Tax all extractive industries to clean up their messes

    • Clean up abandoned oil and gas sites (Jobs)

    • Clean up uranium sites (Jobs)

    • Clean up plastic pollution (Jobs)

    • Clean up PVAs (Jobs)

    • Clean up all contaminated sites

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• Eliminate all for profit prisons

• Reform the Police

  • Nationally license, register, and insure Law Enforcement

  • Number one job of Law Enforcement: De-escalate

  • Raise pay and education requirements

  • Use Social Workers when appropriate instead of armed officers

  • No more law enforcement confiscations except against the extreme rich

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Criminal Justice, Safety & Police Reform

• Path to citizenship

• Fast track all Dreamers to citizenship

• Anyone serving or has served 18 months in the US Military gets automatic citizenship

• Abide by International Law for asylum seekers

• Eliminate ICE

  • Eliminate unlimited statute of limitations for deportable defenses

  • Eliminate for profit prisons

  • Prosecute ICE members who broke the law

Human Rights, Immigration & Foreign Policy

• Veterans

  • Citizenship after 18 months service, to be retroactive for all past veterans and current members of the military

• Genocide, War Crimes, and Crimes Against Humanity

  • Prosecute anyone responsible for Genocide in Gaza including Biden, Harris, et al and his cabinet

  • Prosecute the Bush Crime Family for starting two illegal wars

  • Prosecute DT for his many crimes from continuing the Gaza Genocide to separating families and putting children in cages to whatever crime he committed today.

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Housing

• Build and provide publicly owned Housing like Vienna where no one pays more than 25% of their income for housing (Jobs)

Housing, Labor Rights, & Gun Reform

Labor & Unions

• Support Unions and union formation

• Go after union busters and corporations preventing unions

• Overturn Taft/Hartley

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Guns

• Ban Assault Weapons and high capacity magazines

• Red Flag Laws

• Universal Background Checks

• License, Register, and Insure guns and gun owners